Word: seppuku
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After sitting with him for more than three hours and reviewing the boy's studies, the old general went home to his wife. First, the couple purified themselves in Shinto rites. Then the general took a dagger, dispatched his wife, and eviscerated himself in an act of sacrificial seppuku (ritual suicide) asa last service to the Emperor he had adored...